Darany Samountry, a born
and bred North Carolinian, always excelled at art. It wasn’t until a solo trip to Seattle that she decided to actively pursue it as a career. Because she’s only been cultivating her interests and honing her skills for a few years, she doesn’t have a “style” of art, and instead likes to play around with different styles and see if she can master each one. (Though she does admit the majority of what she does is contemporary.) Even
though she’s a novice, Darany sees art as something she wants to do permanently. As she says, “I want to share my joy and passion for it with other people.” When she’s not creating, Darany enjoys dining out downtown. web: www.daranysarah.com contact: darany.sarah@gmail.com
raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. He attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000. Since relocating to Raleigh, he has been active in the arts community. Norval works in his studio at Artspace located in downtown Raleigh, teaches painting and printmaking at the Pullen Arts Center and summer camp at Artspace. Norval was awarded the Regional Artist Project Grant from the United Arts Council in 2003, has painted murals in York Elementary in Raleigh, and at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY, and his art is currently displayed on Raleigh city buses as part of the Art on the Move project. His work has been shown in Columbia, MO; Vail, CO; San Diego, CA; Greensboro, NC; Miami, FL; and New York City.
Darany’s T-shirt design
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Keith Norval was born and
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Keith’s T-shirt design
web: www.keithnorval.com/keith/index.html contact: keith@keithnorval.com
| Downtown raleigH’s PreMier MontHlY | VoluMe 7, issue 7
leah Palmer Preiss, a self-
described “freelance illustrator, calligrapher, newbie animator, and creator and collector of oddments and curiosities,” has lived in Raleigh for 21 years and enjoys it more each day.